At the steel plant, all minorities hired are assigned to work the battery pits, one of the dirtiest jobs in the mill. Even so, the battery pit workers wear this assignment as a badge of honor and have developed a close social bond that transcends the time they spend at the mill. How would Karl Marx describe their solidarity?

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Karl Marx would describe the battery pit workers' solidarity as sharing class consciousness. This means that they have developed a collective awareness of their shared class position as workers who are treated unfairly by the capitalist system. Their experience of being assigned to the dirtiest jobs at the mill is likely to have reinforced this sense of shared class identity and solidarity.

At the Steel Plant, All Minorities Hired Are Assigned to Work